laminage
\la.mi.naʒ\
The verdict
“laminage” is uncommon French (frequency #75,832 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,832
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de laminer, manière de réduire les métaux en lames.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laminage · laminage · French
laminage · rank #75,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,832
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH lak
Nearest frequency peer: lak (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “laminage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- laiteuse
laiteuse
24,171 corpus weight
- lak
lak
24,170 corpus weight
- laminage
laminage
24,169 corpus weight
- lamp
lamp
24,168 corpus weight
- lancinant
lancinant
24,167 corpus weight
- latter
latter
24,165 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “laminage” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laminage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.mi.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laminage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
laminage is uncommon French at frequency #75,832 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.mi.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for laminage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is laminage, spelled L-A-M-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de laminer, manière de réduire les métaux en lames.
- 2Anéantissement, écrasement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laminage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.